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Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( VASS-il-ee kan-DIN-skee; Russian: Василий Васильевич Кандинский, tr. Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, IPA: [vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj]; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wassily Kandinsky has received more than 4,847,443 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Wassily Kandinsky is the 26th most popular painter (up from 30th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Russia (up from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Russian Painter.

Wassily Kandinsky is most famous for his abstract paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 26 out of 1,421. Before him are Titian, Donatello, Gustav Klimt, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Eugène Delacroix, and Édouard Manet. After him are Piet Mondrian, El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch, Edgar Degas, Jacques-Louis David, and Jan van Eyck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 1. After him are Sun Yat-sen, Romain Rolland, Erik Satie, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hunt Morgan, George Gurdjieff, Alfred Werner, Benedetto Croce, Beatrix Potter, Aby Warburg, and Giovanni Agnelli. Among people deceased in 1944, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 4. Before him are Edvard Munch, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Erwin Rommel. After him are Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Abdulmejid II, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Richard Sorge, and Günther von Kluge.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 19 out of 3,262. Before him are Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Alexander Pushkin (1799), and Ivan Pavlov (1849). After him are Igor Stravinsky (1882), Kim Jong-il (1941), Isaac Asimov (1920), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Ayn Rand (1905), and Nicholas I of Russia (1796).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 1. After him are Andrei Rublev (1360), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Valentin Serov (1865), Karl Bryullov (1799), and Lovis Corinth (1858).

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